Topic: Go Squared Engineering

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Tools of Slaughter
Episode 540 13:16 - 19:33

540: Tools of Slaughter

Google Downtime, Internet Traffic Statistics, Antitrust Claims

A brief Google service outage led to widespread reports from tech journalists claiming that 40% of global internet traffic disappeared during the downtime. These statistics, sourced from Go Squared Engineering, are challenged as being unverified and likely only reflective of a specific subset of users rather than the entire internet. If Google truly controlled 40% of the web, it is argued that the government should initiate antitrust proceedings to break the company up.